Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


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All Hail Dark Lord Davi

How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler

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In How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying, we meet one Davi Morrigan; Ms. Skulltaker, if you’re nasty. Davi is stuck in a time loop in a land with no name, where she appears to have been teleported (maybe?) from America (probably). Davi has lived two hundred and eighty-some lives over a thousand years, trying (and failing) to defeat The Dark Lord and his army of wilders. And she is tired of it. Tired of getting killed in all the possible ways someone […]

CBR BINGO: Wheels—”We sluggalos have a code. That code is unity, support, family, and kneecapping bitches.”

A Parade of Horribles (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #8) by Matt Dinniman

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I think this is in my top three of the series. The ending was one of the wildest things I’ve ever read in a book. But way too much happened here, and I have way too many thoughts to sum up my feelings, so we’re going to bullet point this one with things that I’m thinking of off the top of my head: *You love Prepotente, this is your book. I had so many feels about him, also I laughed at him quite a bit. […]

I can feel it coming in the air tonight

A Parade of Horribles by Matt Dinniman

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Bingo Square: Joker (Carl is chaos personified) Quote: “That’s the problem with hitting the elites financially. Every time you hurt one, all it does is make another richer. That won’t stop until the baskets overflow with their godsdamned heads.” Throughout the series, the beginnings of the new novels and floors have tended to act as resets and completely shift the tone. Book 3 went from everyone working together at the end of the Iron Tangle to being separated for the Bubbles; Book 5 to Book […]

“I wasn’t just going to abandon you, Carl,” Donut said. “Who do you think I am? Miss Beatrice?”

The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook by Matt Dinniman

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Carl, Donut and Mongo have made it to the fourth level of the dungeon. This time, there are trains. So many trains. The game appears to have constructed a labyrinthine tangle of all of the world’s underground railway systems, and there are new and strange rules to get used to. There are bounties awarded to anyone who kills any of the players in the top ten, which now include both Carl and Donut. There are all manner of strange monsters on the various trains and […]

“Bad Llama. Level 3. It’s a llama, but it’s bad. If he were human, he’d be covered in prison tattoos and would be hanging out in front of the Circle K hitting on 14-year-old girls.”

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

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CBR17 Bingo: Rec’d (I honestly don’t know how many people have raved about this book, on CBR, other review sites on the internet, as well as in my IRL book club) By now, most people who are even vaguely interested in this series probably know what it’s about, but I’ll try to give a brief summary. Carl is wandering around, half-dressed in the snow, looking for his ex-girlfriend’s prize-winning Persian cat, when Earth is suddenly attacked by aliens. All the buildings collapse in an instant […]

Doomsday Do’s and Doomsday Don’ts

Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman

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Carl is a normal dude. Except that he is stuck in the apocalypse. With his ex-girlfriend’s cat, Princess Donut. And there is an alien invasion. Plus, Carl and most of what’s left of humanity are involuntarily placed on a Running-Man-style intergalactic game show. And the contestants don’t know who (if anyone) to trust. And the odds are that they will all die very soon. To stave off the inevitable, the characters have to kill monsters (Are they monsters?) and level up. Is it worth it […]



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